Method and system for characterizing undebarked wooden logs and computing optimal debarking parameters in real time
AssigneeBid Group Technologies Ltd
InventorsFrancis Clement, Guy Morissette
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Abstract
A method for characterizing undebarked wooden logs and computing optimal debarking parameters in real time is provided. The method comprises a scanning device upstream of a debarker for providing data, usually in the form of images, to a deep learning algorithm model. The model may be trained with human assistance or not to detect and identify, with an acceptable amount of certainty, characteristics of undebarked logs. The characteristics are used in an optimization software and classified in an index table. The index table is used to determine optimized parameters for debarking the log.
Claims20
1) A computer-implemented method for characterizing an undebarked log in real time, the method comprising:
- measuring attributes of the undebarked log;
- identifying characteristics of the undebarked log based on measured attributes of the undebarked log using a trained deep learning model;
- computing operating parameters of a debarker based on the identified characteristics;
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- sending the computed operating parameters to the debarker.
12) A system for characterizing an undebarked log in real time, the system comprising:
- a log measurement device for identifying attributes of the undebarked log;
- a characterizing unit in communication with the log measurement device, the characterizing unit comprising:
- a deep learning model;
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- a computerized device configured to identify characteristics of the undebarked log based on measured attributes of the undebarked log using the deep learning model;
- a debarker optimizer in communication with the characterizing unit, the debarker optimizer being configured to compute operating parameters of a debarker based the characteristics identified by the characterizing unit;
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- a debarker controller in communication with the debarker optimizer and the debarker, the debarker controller being configured to control the debarker using the computed operating parameters from the debarker optimizer.
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